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Marti's Last Stand
Marti was a fighting man whose story should be toldhe was a son of circumstance he couldn't quite controlhis father gave him pellet guns and plastic hand grenadeshad him marching up and down, like he was on paradeMarti was a fighting boy, his parents made it clearand military college was his home for seven yearsthey make a soldier out of him no matter what the pricehe said he was a pacifist, they called it cowardice "all I ever wanted to be was left alone to live in peacebut nobody would ever listen to methey forced a gun into my hands and told me what to do with itnobody would ever listen to me"Marti was a fighting man, on graduation daysplendid in his uniform, he smartly marched awayand when the call to action came in battle he did risedodging blood and bullets and indoctrinated liesoh, Marti was a fighting man the enemy was sureboth had drawn their guns and after that it was a blurMarti was the faster draw but purposefully shot wide"peace to you my friend", was all he said before he died"all I ever wanted to be was left alone to live in peaceSongtextenobody would ever listen to methey forced a gun into my hands and told me what to do with itnobody would ever listen to me"what is this world we left our sons and daughters nowso full of hatred, pain and hypocrisy and powerwe will not listen when they told us how they feltand so by God I hope we're happy nowMarti was a fighting man the eulogy was readserved his country well, a brave young man, is what they said"all I ever wanted to be was left alone to live in peacebut nobody would ever listen to methey forced a gun into my hands and told me what to do with itnobody would ever listen to me"what is this world we left our sons and daughters nowso full of hatred, pain and hypocrisy and powerit's time we listen to the things they have to sayby God I hope it's not to late to change
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